Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
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Images
A catalog of graphics collected as part of this project, both illustrations from editions of the Travels and related items of interest.
Historic Editions
The original editions of Gulliver's Travels contained few graphics: a portrait of Capt. Lemuel Gulliver and six plates, five of which are maps. Adding the five title pages makes a grand total of twelve illustrations or graphics.
- 1726 Motte (AA) Edition.
- reproduced with the permission of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
- 1744 Faulkner Edition.
- provided by John Bohner from a copy in his collection.
- Gulliver's Travels and Other Works by Jonathan Swift: exactly reprinted from the first edition. George Routledge and Sons, 1906.
- from facsimiles
Illustrated Editions
Despite its modest graphical origins, the story has inspired many illustrated editions, including efforts by some of the great book illustrators. Here is a selection from what I have collected.
- Arthur Rackham
I have been notified that Rackham's work is not in the public domain and removed this item for the timebeing.)
- R.G. Mossa, Garden City Pub., 1930.
- Milo Winter, Rand McNally, 1912.
- Edwin Prittie, Winston, 1930.
- Thomas Morten, Lippincott, 1875.
- artist unnamed, H. Altemus [publisher], 1896.
- Les Voyages de Gulliver list of illustrated editions of the Travels [en Francais] -- Centre International d'Etudes en Littˇrature de Jeunesse
- Maps For Gulliver's Travels Peter Pauper Press, Mount Vernon, New York
- Gullivers prone [?] - Harry Theaker's illustrated Gulliver's Travels, Ward Lock, London c1925 and Robin Jacques, Gulliver's Travels, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1955; Gulliver and the Lilliputians.
- Woodcut by David Jones sample from Golden Cockerel Press edition of the Travels, 1925
Other Swift and Gulliver Graphics
Willimantic Spool Cotton ad thanks to Tom Beardsley
Art Imagebase: San Francisco Art Museum Infobase
(Link to the above site and search for keyword "Gulliver")
Napoleon: Caricutures including two showing the Emperor as Gulliver in Brobdingnag
Fleischer Studios - art work from the animated version - Van Eaton Galleries
Other Related Graphic Sources
Gulliver Homepage
compiled by Lee Jaffe
updated 28 June 2001
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